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In an article for Capital New York, I took a broader view of the Senate recount, and state of things.

The fate of the Senate, a critical third of the state government troika, is too close to call. Thompson and two other Democratic Senate incumbents, Craig Johnson and Suzi Oppenheimer, are mired in re-counts. Democrats would need all three to win—an unlikely scenario—in order to maintain their 32-30 majority in the chamber.

With the G.O.P. candidates leading Thompson and Johnson, people are starting to worry: whoever controls the Senate won’t do it by a wide margin, all but ensuring two more years of turbulence. As some in Albany have started to worry, at first jokingly but as weeks pass, with increasing dread, that the Senate could actually be tied.

As Baruch College public affairs professor Doug Muzzio colorfully, and accurately, articulated the consensus sentiment in Albany about that possibile outcome: “If it’s 31-31, you have to shoot yourself in the head. It’s a deadlock…”

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